American and European dentists must really loathe each other’s work. In the US, my dentist was agape at the coarseness of the European works in my mouth, and proceeded to finesse all manner of things in there. Today, I visited a Swedish dentist, and she was equally aghast, this time at the hurried look of American efforts.<\/p>\n
So I need a recent American-made filling replaced. But first, a medical questionnaire. In Swedish. Rather than accidentally admitting to having sold off a kidney, I leave most of that blank“Snussar du?” is one question. Do you use snuss, a teabag of tobacco you stuff between your gums and your upper lip, making you look like an out-of-whack Don Corleone<\/a>? It doesn’t get more Swedish than this. I’ve tried it, and as the buzz builds up, you begin oozing brown drool whenever you smile. Apparently, it takes practice. Whoever makes it should really expand into New York City bars, though.<\/span>.<\/p>\n My Swedish dental vocabulary is about as good as my dentist’s English dental vocabulary. As I lie there, open mouthed, with an 800,000 rpm diamond drill<\/a> in my mouth an inch from my brain, she proceeds to rattle off all manner of Important Dentistry Observations in Swedish, to which I nod earnestly, incapable really of asking for vocabulary clarifications. I get an irrepressible flashback of that Gary Larson cartoon<\/a> where a dog owner tells off his pet but all the dog understands is “blah blah blah GINGER blah blah blah.” Yeah, I’m the dog.<\/p>\n I’ll find out next week if I agreed to having all my teeth pulled and getting dentures. I hope not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" American and European dentists must really loathe each other’s work. In the US, my dentist was agape at the coarseness of the European works in my mouth, and proceeded to finesse all manner of things in there. Today, I visited … Continue reading
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